I was pardonably curious in my survey, for it appeared my fate to be pent up with them on this miniature floating world for I knew not how many weeks or months.

The sailors, in the main, were English and Scandinavian, and their faces seemed of the heavy, stolid order.

The hunters, on the other hand, had stronger and more diversified faces, with hard lines and the marks of the free play of passions.

Strange to say, and I noted it all once, Wolf Larsen's features showed no such evil stamp.

There seemed nothing vicious in them.